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Editorial: Congress should clear the tracks for Amtrak
(The following editorial appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on July 3.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With airlines cutting service and gas topping $4 a gallon, ridership on Amtrak is chugging ever upward. A record 25 million passengers traveled on Amtrak trains in fiscal...
Mississippi River to reopen fully next week
(Reuters circulated the following story by Lisa Shumaker on July 2.) CHICAGO — The upper Mississippi River is expected to fully reopen no later than July 8 after being closed for nearly a month due to the worst flooding in the U.S. Midwest in 15 years, said U.S. grain...
Ruling backs Minot train derailment victims
(The following story by James Walsh appeared on the Minneapolis Star Tribune website on July 2.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A legal battle waged between victims of a 2002 train derailment outside Minot, N.D., and the railroad may be heading back to state court for...
Prince Rupert ports had boom year
(The following story by Leanne Ritchie appeared on the Vancouver Sun website on July 2.) PRINCE RUPERT — The opening of the Fairview Container Terminal and strong performances by Ridley Terminals and Prince Rupert Grain resulted in tonnage volumes through the Port of...
Town building momentum in EJ&E fight
(The following story by Dan Campana appeared on the Suburban Chicago News website on July 3.) AURORA, Ill. — They sat 20-deep heading east on Ogden Avenue Tuesday morning. For two minutes and seven seconds, drivers waited patiently as a relatively short freight train...
Time for Chicago-Milwaukee commuter line has come, employees, companies say
(The following story by John Dobberstein appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on July 2.) CHICAGO — Three times a week, Deanna Ver Steeg begins her commute shortly after 6:30 a.m. She takes a Metra train from Chicago to Kenosha, then boards a large van that takes...
LIRR conductor stops man’s assault of woman on tracks
(The following story by Timothy Robertson appeared on the Newsday website on July 3.) NEW YORK — A Long Island Rail Road conductor, alerted by passengers to cries for help near the tracks, stopped the sexual assault of a woman in broad daylight at the Freeport...
Ex-KCS chief Shoener gets nearly $2 million severance
(The following appeared on the Kansas City Southern website on July 2.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Art Shoener, who recently resigned as Kansas City Southern’s president and chief operating officer, will receive nearly $2 million in total severance benefits, according to a...
U.S. starts regulating freight rail security
(The following story by Raju Chebium appeared on the Courier Post website on July 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal rule, which the Bush administration will begin enforcing today, seeks to minimize the chances of terrorists attacking freight trains carrying hazardous...
Four CP Rail cars carrying toxic fluid derail in B.C.
(The following story by Jack Keating and Joe Couture appeared on The Province website on July 3.) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canadian Pacific Railway was trying last night to recover four tanker cars of toxic ethylene glycol after a train derailed about 10 kilometres north of...
